The marriage between the two giants (in their respective fields) took place last year. The world of mechatronics got a tad bit easier with the coming together of LabVIEW and SolidWorks. Many engineers would feel a tickle of excitement reading about this marriage and the future possibilities seem endless. The relationship looks very promising.
I had attended a workshop conducted by National Instruments about introduction to the LabVIEW software. User friendly-yes,and i liked the data acquisition part,pretty cool! Furthermore, I would also highly recommend SolidWorks compared to Autocad. SolidWorks allows you to specify where you want a specific parameter and it does not change with the addition of another dimension. Convenient, ain't it?
The integration of the two (LabVIEW and SolidWorks) gives the concept of virtual prototyping a real boost.Traditionally, companies built expensive prototypes and tested these under desired conditions before manufacturing the final product. However, the integration allows engineers visualize the real world behaviour of machines and motion control systems without building prototypes. Optimizing,visualizing and validating real world performance of machines and motion systems without having to build costly prototypes sounds like a manufacturer's dream. Well,it just turned out to be true!
A recent article in Design News magazine elaborates on this cross collaboration.The LabVIEW teams create the motion control code in their software,build their prototype in Solidworks and then put them together in the lab. Now ideas seem viable, but is the virtual prototype really that accurate? Not so sure, but no two ways on agreeing that it does save a lot of time, effort, and money.
Companies should be proactive and take advantage of this technological advancement as it allows one to make changes in the product with no additional cost. Someone once said, "I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future". So, let the research begin!
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